Total 3 Senior Executive level Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 1PS

Service Care Solutions is working alongside a thriving local authority, based in Lancashire, which needs a Senior Litigation Lawyer to join their team and handle Criminal and Civil Litigation matters. This role involves management responsibilities and it would be well suited to someone who is looking to spearhead a team!

This position is a three-month rolling contract and they can pay a competitive rate of £55-£60ph umbrella. There is potential negotiation on the rate for the right candidate.

Responsibilities involved in the Senior Litigation Lawyer role

• Handle a mixed caseload of Criminal and Civil Litigation matters from start to completion.
• Manage a litigation legal team and provide support whenever necessary
• Provide expert legal counsel to the council and its departments on litigation risk, strategies, and decision-making
• Prepare cases and represent the council in courts and tribunals, ensuring well-prepared, effective advocacy

Requirements

• A qualified Solicitor, Legal Executive or Barrister with Criminal and Civil Litigation experience
• Someone who has worked for a Local Authority within a litigation legal team
• Someone who can attend the county hall (Preston) once a week.
• Ideally someone with management experience

Benefits included with the Senior Litigation Lawyer position

• Weekly pay
• Professional development opportunities
• Hybrid working

If this Senior Litigation Lawyer vacancy sounds like an opportunity of interest for you or someone you know, please feel free to reach out to Hugh Barnes on 01772208969, or email Hugh.Barnes@servicecare.org.uk.

We also welcome referrals for this position, where a successful recommendation would be worth £250.

Your new company
Your new company are a new, independent utilities infrastructure business formed from the division of a previously leading infrastructure service company. They design, build and maintain the UK's utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better.
They are incredibly proud of their client base, including the likes of Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Scottish Water, Northern Powergrid and Scottish Power, providing them with an efficient, speedy and customer-focused engineering service.


Your new role
Your new role will see you joining the consultancy as a Civil Design Engineer, as either an experienced Project or Senior Engineer. You will join the dedicated Design and Construct teams, currently delivering an expanding workload for your clients on a number of D&C frameworks throughout the UK.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team on a wide variety of projects covering all aspects of Wastewater and Water networks, and treatment facilities through the project lifestyle from feasibility design through detailed design to construction.


The position will be based in the Warrington and will involve a mixture of hybrid working, with even more flexibility provided to candidate at a higher level. You will have the opportunity to work on both challenging and exciting projects of a technical nature designing excellent services and solutions for our wide client base by assisting the team in all relevant projects and activities to meet client objectives and needs. Working as part of a team, you will acquire a portfolio of technical knowledge and transferable skills that will give you a wide choice of careers options.
What you'll need to succeed


You will need to be degree qualified, and for more senior positions have professional qualifications with either the ICE or IStructE. Furthermore you should be able to demonstrate the following:

• Computer literate and conversant with MS Office suite and relevant engineering software packages
• Demonstrable experience in Water / Wastewater Engineering preferable
• Good written and oral communication and organisational skills and to produce reports in clear concise English
• Desire to develop existing skills and acquire new technical competences to enhance personal and team capability
• Proven ability to work within a team environment with a dedicated approach to meet project deadlines
• Client focused approach to service delivery
• Proven enthusiasm to embrace and participate in career development initiatives
• Full Driving Licence

What you'll get in return
You will be rewarded with a competitive salary up to £45,000 for Engineers £60,000 for Senior/Principals, all based on proven skills and UK experience. Hard work is celebrated and rewarded. It will be recognised that one size doesn't fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.


What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Senior Security Architect

Help us ensure security architecture considerations are integrated into DWP Digital solution designs at the earliest opportunity

Pay between £52,412 - £70,000, plus 27.9% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000, hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra days off a month.

Location

Your choice of Blackpool & Manchester. We work a hybrid model: some time in an office, some time at home.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.

Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing secure, user-friendly digital services?

In this role you will design deliver and support the technical and security architecture design elements for DWP Digital projects and initiatives, as we fundamentally transform the way public services work in the UK>

You'll collaboratively design secure, modern IT architectures for of the most digital transformations in Europe. You'll help us build better services for millions of users.

Designing World-Class Protections.

DWP maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.

We'll need you to engage with key projects from the Discovery phase and throughout the life cycle through to disposal. Millions of people access our services every day - we need to be a security architecture exemplar.

Our Security Architects need a blend of technical security knowledge, architecture design, and development skills. You will have a deep knowledge and experience in Security.

You also need to be adept and communication, influence and leadership and you communicate and advocate for security architecture design and decision making with senior leaders, forums and governance boards.

Your Essential Skills:

• Application Architecture design and modelling techniques, tools, and standards.
• Application Security Testing e.g., OWASP and Secure Code Assessment tools, and security of container/cluster based solutions e.g. Docker, Kubernetes.
• Identity Management and federation including SSO.
• Cloud Acceleration, SD-WAN, DDoS and network based controls.
• Cloud based assurance and risk models and their application, including NIST and other associated frameworks.
• Information Security innovation as part of the future of Application Reference Architecture.

It is also beneficial to hold 1 or more of the following (or equivalent) when starting the role but this is not essential:

• Azure/AWS Architecture certified.
• CCSK Certified /CCSP Certified.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Details. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum.

You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 27.9% - that could be worth over £17,000 in your pension pot each year.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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